The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Perception is a survey by leading philosophical thinkers of contemporary issues and new thinking in philosophy of perception. It includes sections on the history of the subject, introductions to contemporary issues in the epistemology, ontology and aesthetics of perception, treatments of the individual sense modalities and of the things we perceive by means of them, and a consideration of how perceptual information is integrated and consolidated. New analytic tools and applications to other areas of philosophy are discussed in depth. Each of the forty-five entries is written by a leading expert, some collaborating with younger figures; each seeks to introduce the reader to a broad range of issues. All contain new ideas on the topics covered; together they demonstrate the vigour and innovative zeal of a young field. The book is accessible to anybody who has an intellectual interest in issues concerning perception.

Contents: Introduction/Mohan Matthen. I. Historical background: 1. Perception in ancient Greek philosophy/Victor Caston. 2. Perception in medieval philosophy/Dominik Perler. 3. Skepticism and perception/Baron Reed. 4. Perception in early modern philosophy/Alison Simmons. 5. Perception in philosophy and psychology in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries/Gary Hatfield. 6. Sense data/Paul Snowdon. 7. Phenomenological approaches/Charles Siewert. II. Contemporary Philosophical Approaches. 8. Perceptual representation/perceptual content/Bence Nanay. 9. Perception and the first person/Christopher Peacocke. 10. Non conceptual content/Wayne Wright. 11. Disjunctivism/Heather Logue. 12. Action based accounts/Pierre Jacob. 13. Perceptual reports/Berit Brogaard. III. The Senses. 14. Vision/David Hilbert. 15. Audition/Matt Nudds. 16. Touch/Frederique de Vignemont and Olivier Massin. 17. The chemical senses/Barry Smith. 18. The bodily senses/J. Brendan Ritchie and Peter Carruthers. 19. Unconscious perception/Jesse Prinz. IV. What We Perceive. 20. Object perception/Roberto Casati. 21. Primary and secondary qualities/Peter Ross. 22. Colour/Kathleen Akins and Martin Hahn. 23. Perception and space/Jerome Dokic. 24. Perception and time/Robin le Poidevin. 25. Speech perception/Casey O’Callaghan. 26. Musical perception/Charles Nussbaum. 27. Own body perception/Alisa Mandrigin and Evan Thompson. 28. Pain/Valerie Gray Hardcastle. 29. Perceiving Nothings/Roy Sorensen. V. Integrating Sensory Information. 30. Individuating the senses/Mohan Matthen. 31. Attention/John Campbell. 32. Multisensory perception/Tim Bayne and Charles Spence. 33. Perceptual constancy/Jonathan Cohen. 34. Synesthesia/Malika Auvray and Ophelia Deroy. 35. Substituting the senses/ Julian Kiverstein, Mirko Farina and Andy Clark. VI. Frameworks for Perception. 36. Similarity spaces/Diana Raffman. 37. Bayesian perceptual psychology/Michael Rescorla. 38. Signal detection theory/E. Samuel Winer and Michael Snodgrass. 39. Information theory/John Kulvicki. 40. Modularity of perception/Ophelia Deroy. VII. Broader Philosophical Issues. 41. The epistemology of perception/Susanna Siegel and Nicholas Silins. 42. Perceptual learning/Rob Goldstone and Lisa Byrge. 43. Perception and demonstratives/Imogen Dickie. 44. Nonhuman animal senses/Brian Keeley. 45. Perception and art/Dominic Lopes.